Gleb Semyonovich Shishmarev (1781-1835) and Mikhail
Nikolayevich Vasilyev (1770-1847) were officers in the
Imperial Russian Navy. Their expedition of 1819-1822 explored
the western coast of Alaska. These papers, from the Vilhjalmur
Stefansson Collection, include correspondence from
anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray regarding her scholarship
about early accounts of the expedition, a summary of the
voyage by Vasilii N Berkh (from the Chronological History of
all the Voyages to the Arctic, 1970 - 1972, translated from
the Russian by Rhea Josephson), Karl K. Hillsen’s journal
(translated from the Russian by Rhea Josephson), and Captain
Shishmarev's article about Chukchi (translated from the
Russian by Rhea Josephson).

Three Accounts of the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822 Document Index